Infectious Diseases Nurse Navigator RN

About the role

This RN coordinates the care of patients being seen by the Infectious Disease Program. Essential functions include providing direct patient care, evaluating outcomes, consulting with other specialists as required, adjusting nursing care processes as needed to ensure safe patient care, writing or obtaining initial nursing histories, assessing patients' conditions, developing individual care plans, maintaining patient documentation, receiving and reviewing preceding shift reports and floor nurse reports, making complete rounds of all units, notifying appropriate physicians regarding any unusual or unexpected events or problems requiring direct physician consultation, working with other members of the interdisciplinary patient care team, implementing and reinforcing patient instructional needs with patients and families, offering informational material, identifying and resolving workplace health and safety issues, providing appropriate, direct patient care utilizing appropriate aseptic techniques, managing IV lines, ensuring sterile techniques are adhered to, overseeing patient movement and positioning to ensure medical safety, performing the administration of pharmacological vasodilator medications for the purpose of nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging, complying with examination competency as defined in the Imaging Services Practice Standards, complying with policies, procedures, regulations, and standards, taking corrective action when violations occur, orienting, instructing, and educating assigned personnel, adhering to and supporting team members in exhibiting TMCH values of integrity, community, compassion, and dedication, adhering to TMCH organizational and department-specific safety, confidentiality, values, policies and standards, and performing related duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with other specialists as required and adjusts nursing care processes as indicated to ensure safe patient care.
• Writes or obtains initial nursing histories, assesses patients' conditions and develops individual care plans; maintains patient documentation.
• Receives and reviews preceding shift reports and floor nurse reports; makes complete rounds of all units, and notes patients' condition.
• Notifies appropriate physician regarding any unusual or unexpected events or problems requiring direct physician consultation.
• Works with other members of the interdisciplinary patient care team, implements and reinforces patient instructional needs with patient and family offering informational material and pointing out special areas of concern.
• Evaluates outcomes of patient care, consults with other specialists as needed and adjusts nursing care processes as necessary to ensure optimal patient care.
• Identifies and resolves workplace health and safety issues.
• P rovides appropriate, direct patient care utilizing appropriate aseptic techniques.
• May manage IV lines, ensure that sterile techniques are adhered to, and oversee patient movement and positioning to ensure that the patient is handled in a medically safe manner.
• May perform the administration of pharmacological vasodilator medications for the purpose of nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging; complies with examination competency as defined in the Imaging Services Practice Standards.
• Complies with policies, procedures, regulations, and standards and takes corrective action when violations occur.

Requirements

• One (1) year of nursing experience in an acute care setting preferred.
• (Positions assigned to EP: require two (2) years of EP experience or demonstrated competency in all areas of EP Lab procedures).

Qualifications

• Current RN licensure permitting work in the State of Arizona and Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.

Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of direct patient care and critical care procedures and techniques, tools, and responses required to ensure optimal patient care.
• Knowledge of exam indicators, contraindications, and patient preparation.
• Skill in communicating in a clear and concise manner with staff involved in critical care, and physicians to ensure the proper care of patients.
• Skill in reading 12-lead EKG.
• Skill demonstrated in assigned disciplines such as EP, directly involved in patient care.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to complete routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to listen and accurately interpret others’ communication or instructions to take appropriate action.
• Ability to speak and communicate effectively.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.